(Council Bluffs, Iowa) -Two men from Florida who were wanted on multiple warrants from Iowa and elsewhere, were arrested this (Wednesday) morning after the vehicle they were in crashed during a pursuit. A man from Shelby County was injured during the incident. Iowa State Patrol Trooper/Public Resource Officer Ryan Devault told KJAN News the incident began at around 7:08-a.m., when a Trooper tried to initiate a traffic stop on a speeding 2022 Ford Explore with Florida license plates on Interstate 80 at mile marker 35.
The SUV accelerated at a high rate of speed, resulting in a pursuit.

The vehicle weaved and out of traffic during the chase. Stop sticks were used twice before the SUV went out of control on I-80 westbound at mile marker 7, and struck a 2013 GMC Terrain, driven by 67-year-old Donald Sorensen, of Portsmouth.

The injured Sorensen was transported to Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs for treatment of minor, non life-threatening injuries. The suspects took off on foot. One of the subjects tried to enter a nearby assisted living facility, but the doors were locked. The arrested suspects were identified 26-year-old Victory Ogiste, from Fort Lauderdale, FL. And 28-year-old Xavier Najee, from Plantation, Florida. Both men had outstanding warrants. Ogiste’s warrants were from Black Hawk and Hamilton Counties, in Iowa. Najee had warrants out of North and South Carolina, Tennesse and Virginia. They will face additional charges following the incident in Pottawattamie County.

Traffic was backed-up for at least three-miles following the crash and during the investigation.